gRPC Traffic Management with a Service Mesh
Use a service mesh like Istio to manage gRPC traffic in the cloud with sidecar proxies, intelligent routing, retries, and canary releases.
Why a Service Mesh
As gRPC microservices multiply, cross-cutting concerns — routing, retries, mTLS, observability — clutter every service. A service mesh moves these into the platform layer.
The Sidecar Proxy
A mesh injects a sidecar proxy (e.g. Envoy) next to each pod. All gRPC traffic flows through it, so the proxy can apply policy without changing app code.
All lessons in this course
- gRPC on Kubernetes
- Cloud Load Balancers
- Serverless gRPC Functions
- gRPC Traffic Management with a Service Mesh